BIBR Gallery presents: Tony Gleaton.For the past 20 years, Tony Gleaton has been on a photographic pilgrimage of the African Diaspora The African diaspora is the diaspora created by the movements and cultures of Africans and their descendants throughout the world, to places such as the Americas, (including the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America) Europe and Asia. in the Americas. Gleaton is committed to exploring every nuance of African influence in the Americas. First, he documented the little known black cowboys in the western US, then he went south of the border into Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Belize and Columbia to gather the photographic evidence of descendants of the Transatlantic slaves living there. Born in 1948 in Detroit, he studied photography at UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX , after a year tour of duty in Vietnam. He spent the late 70s as a fashion photographer in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . In 1998 he was an artist-in-residence at Light Work in Syracuse, NY. Among the public collections in the US and abroad that have acquired Gleaton's works are The Brooklyn Museum of Art Brooklyn Museum of Art, museum in the borough of Brooklyn, N.Y. Its predecessors were the Brooklyn Apprentices' Library (1823), the Brooklyn Institute (1843), and the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences (1890). , The Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, also known as LACMA, is the official and world-renowned art museum of the County of Los Angeles, California, located on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. , The Field Museum and the Schomburg Collection. Although he's often traveling, Gleaton currently lives in Los Angeles. Recent Exhibitions Committed To The Image: Contemporary Black Photographers Brooklyn Museum of Art, April 2001; Wedge Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, May 2001 |
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